Sunday - April 18, 2004
On This Day …..
On December 7, 1941 the Japanese surprised the United States with a sneak attack on Pearl Harbor, practically destroying the US fleet of battleships in the Pacific. The Japanese thought the Americans would be frightened into leaving the Pacific and East Asia so Japan could conquer the region.They were wrong. Soon they would be dead wrong.
Five months later, on April 18, 1942 the Japanese learned just how wrong they had been. Sixteen B-25's, launched from the USS Hornet, bombed the crap out of Tokyo. Colonel Jimmy Doolittle and his raiders sent a clear message to the Japanese: "We may be down but not out. In fact, we're coming to get you."
The Japanese soon realized it was our carriers that were hurting them and spurred them to attempt to destroy our carrier forces. The US Navy was tested first in the Battle Of The Coral Sea, only a few weeks later and in June of 1942, only a month and a half later, the Japanese carrier forces were effectively destroyed at the Battle Of Midway. The war was only seven months old and the Japanese had already gotten the crap kicked out of them for messing with us. The worst was yet to come though. Only three years later at a city called Hiroshima ..............
The moral of this story: don't piss us off.
This is one lesson about the US that our modern terrorists and the Arab nations seem to have overlooked.
It may be time to "re-educate" the world on how NOT to deal with the US.
Posted by The Skipper
on 04/18/2004 at 03:22 AM
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